Ana Ciocarlan is a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, researching personalisation and persuasive technologies to improve subjective wellbeing. Her work focuses on designing an adaptive persuasive intervention that encourages people to perform more acts of kindness. She has previously co-organized the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance PhD conference.
Kirsten Smith is a Research fellow at the University of Southampton, working on the digital behaviour change interventions for e.g. lifestyle changes after cancer treatment, preventing cognitive decline in older adults and training GPs in empathy to improve the wellbeing of patients. She has previously co-organized a workshop on personalization for e-health at the UMAP conference.
Nir Oren is a Reader at University of Aberdeen, UK. He is an expert on reasoning within complex domains, with interests in argumentation and persuasive technologies. His research investigates both the theoretical and practical aspects of argumentation, as well as using argumentation in the persuasive technology domain.
Judith Masthoff is a professor at Utrecht University and the University of Aberdeen. She is Editor-in-Chief of the User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction journal and associate editor of the AI for Human Learning and Behavior Change journal. She has an extensive track record in personalized digital behaviour interventions and led tutorials on this topic at international conferences.
